Best-sellers Books (WSJ) 15-21 marzo 2009

La lista dei libri più venduti in U.S.A. Settimana dal 15 al 21 marzo 2009.

FICTION

1. “Max” James Patterson (Little Brown)

2. “Eclipse” Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown)

3. “Breaking Dawn” by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown)

4. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Last Straw” Jeff Kinney (Amulet)

5. “Hunted” P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast (Little Brown)

6. “Handle with Care” Jodi Picoult ( Hodder)

7. “Corsair” Clive Cussler, Jack B. Du Brul (Penguin)

8. “The Associate”  John Grisham (Random House)

9. “The Host” Stephenie Meyer, (Little Brown)

10. “Diary of a Wimpy Rodrick Rules” Jeff Kinney (Penguin)

NONFICTION

1. “ACT Like a Lady, Think Like a Man” Steve Harvey (Amistad)

2. “Twilight: Director’s Notebook” Catherine Hardwicke (Little Brown)

3. “Outliers The Story of Success” Malcolm Gladwell (Little Brown)

4. “Players Handbook” (Wizards of the Coast)

5. “House of Cards” William D. Cohan (Penguin)

6. “Strengthsfinder 2.0” Tom Rath (Gallup Press)

7. “A Lion Called Christian” Anthony Bourke, John Rendall (Transworld Publishers)

8. “The Yankee Years” Joe Torre, Tom Verducci (Random House)

9. “Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)

10. “The Lost City of Z” David Grann (Simon & Schuster)

Fonte: Wall Street Journal, March 29, 2009

La lista pubblicata dal Wall Street Journal rappresenta le vendite nazionali di libri durante la settimana dal 14 al 21 marzo 2009 nelle oltre 2.500 librerie Barnes & Noble, B. Dalton, Bookland, Books-a-Million, Books & Co, Bookstar, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano’s, Coles, Coopersmith, Doubleday, Scribners e Waldenbooks oltre alle vendite online di Amazon.com e barnesandnoble.com

UK: top ten bestsellers (15-21 marzo 2009)

Top 10 paperbacks – fiction

1. “This Charming Man” by Marian Keyes (Penguin)

2. “Honour Thyself” by Danielle Steel (Transworld Publishers)

3. “Wedding Season” by Katie Fforde (Arrow)

4. “Fractured” by Karin Slaughter (Arrow)

5. “When Will There be Good News?” by Kate Atkinson (Transworld Publishers)

6. “December” by Elizabeth H Winthrop (Hodder)

7. “The Secret Scripture” by Sebastian Barry (Faber)

8. “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic)

9. “The Other Hand” by Chris Cleave (Hodder)

10. “In the Dark” by Mark Billingham (Little Brown)

Top 10 paperbacks – non fiction

1. “The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher” by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury)

2. “Marley and Me” by John Grogan (Hodder)

3. “Dreams from My Father” by Barack Obama (Canongate)

4. “Jordan” by Katie Price (Arrow)

5. “Shadows of the Workhouse” by Jennifer Worth (Orion)

6. “The Bolter” by Frances Osborne (Little, Brown)

7. “I Just Wanted to be Loved” by Stuart Howarth (HarperCollins)

8. “The Audacity of Hope” by Barack Obama (Canongate)

9. “Endal” by Allen and Sandra Parton (Harper)

10. “Adventure on the High Teas” by Stuart Maconie (Ebury)

Fonte: The Sunday Times Bestseller List, March 29, 2009

La lista è pubblicata da “The Bookseller”, i dati sono forniti da Nielsen BookScan e si riferiscono alla settimana 15-21 marzo 2009.

A Biography of Donald Barthelme

E’ appena stata pubblicata la biografia di Donald Barthelme (1931-1989) considerato uno dei maggiori scrittori americani della letteratura   postmoderna.

“Hiding Man A Biography of Donald Barthelme”  By Tracy Daugherty ( Saint Martin’s Press Inc. , 2009 )

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Leggi i rimanzi di Barthelme in lingua originale:

“Flying to America 45 More Stories”
“The Teachings of Don B. Satires, Parodies, Fables, Illustrated Stories and Plays of Donald Barthelme”
“The King”
“Paradise”
“Sixty Stories”
“The Dead Father”
“Being Happy in an Unhappy World”
“The Catalogue of Fantastic Inventions”
“Sadness”
“Great Days”
“Come Back, Doctor Caligari“

The Cult of the Amateur

Sta per uscire da De Agostini con il titolo Dilettanti.com la traduzione italiana del saggio di Andrew Keen “The Cult of the Amateur- How Blogs, MySpace, YouTube and the Rest of Today’s User Generated Media are Killing Our Culture and Economy”.

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Germania: i più venduti della settimana (9-14 marzo 2009)

I libri più venduti i Germania: settimana dal 9 al 14 febbraio 2009.

FICTION:

1. “Bis (Biss) zur Mittagsstunde” Stephenie Meyer (Carlsen Verlag)

2. “Der Vorleser” Bernhard Schlink (Diogenes)

3. “Biss zum Morgengrauen” Stephenie Meyer (Piper Verlag)

4. “Das Echo der Schuld” Charlotte Link (Blanvalet Verlag)

5. “Mörderische Tage” Andreas Franz (Droemer Knaur)

6. “Die Chemie des Todes” Simon Beckett (Rowohlt)

7. “Gut gegen Nordwind” Daniel Glattauer (Goldmann)

8. “Mieses Karma” David Safier (Rowohlt)

9. “Die Vermessung der Welt” Daniel Kehlmanns (Rowohlt)

10. “Verblendung” Stieg Larsson (Heyne Verlag)

NON FICTION:

1. “Die Leber wächst mit ihren Aufgaben” Eckart von Hirschhausen (Rowohlt)

2. “Ich weiß, was du denkst” Havener Thorsten (Rowohlt)

3. “Gomorrha” Roberto Saviano (Hanser, Carl)

4. “Denken Sie selbst! Sonst tun es andere für Sie” Vince Ebert (Rowohlt)

5. “Schmitz’ Katze” Ralf Schmitz (Fischer)

6. “Generation Doof” Anne Weiss, Stefan Bonner (Luebbe)

7. “Fish and Fritz” Wolfgang Koydl (Ullstein)

8. “Der Mathematikverführer” Christoph Drösser (Rowohlt)

9. “Alles über Bella und Edward” Lois H. Gresh, (Piper)

10. “Fucking Berlin” Sonia Rossi (Ullstein)

Fonte: SPIEGEL ONLINE, 20.03.2009

I dati relativi ai libri più venduti in Germania ogni settimana forniti da SPIEGEL ONLINE sono ricavati da una rete di 350 librerie sul territorio tedesco.

UK: top ten bestsellers (8-14 marzo 2009)

Top 10 paperbacks – fiction

1. “This Charming Man” by Marian Keyes (Penguin)

2. “Honour Thyself” by Danielle Steel (Transworld Publishers)

3. “Wedding Season” by Katie Fforde (Arrow)

4. “When Will There be Good News?” by Kate Atkinson (Transworld Publishers)

5.  “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic)

6. “The Secret Scripture” by Sebastian Barry (Faber)

7. “The Reader” by Bernhard Schlink (Orion)

8. “Watchmen” by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (Titan)

9. “Until it’s Over” by Nicci French (Penguin)

10. “Confessions of a Shopaholic” by Sophie Kinsella (Dell)

Top 10 paperbacks – non fiction

1. “Dreams from My Father” by Barack Obama (Canongate)

2. “The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher” by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury)

3. “Marley and Me” by John Grogan (Hodder)

4. “Jordan” by Katie Price (Arrow)

5. “Shadows of the Workhouse” by Jennifer Worth (Orion)

6. “The Bolter” by Frances Osborne (Little, Brown)

7. “Apache Dawn” by Damien Lewis (Little Brown)

8. “The Audacity of Hope” by Barack Obama (Canongate)

9. “I Just Wanted to be Loved” by Stuart Howarth (HarperCollins)

10. “Adventure on the High Teas” by Stuart Maconie (Ebury)

Fonte: The Sunday Times Bestseller List, March 22, 2009

La lista è pubblicata da “The Bookseller”, i dati sono forniti da Nielsen BookScan e si riferiscono alla settimana 8-14 marzo 2009.

Love stories

“Love Stories” Diana Secker Tesdell (Everyman’s Library, 2009)

Una raccolta di 19 racconti, tra i quali “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” di Lawrence, “That in Aleppo Once…”  di Nabokov e “Winter Dreams” di Scott Fitzgerald, che hanno come tema l’amore raccontato nelle sue molteplici faccie: il primo amore, l’adulterio, l’amore non corrisposto, il matrimonio, l’infatuazione, la gelosia, l’ossessione, la passione etc.

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The Letters of Samuel Beckett

Da Cambridge University Press: The Letters of Samuel Beckett -Volume 1, 1929–1940.

Il volume raccoglie le lettere scritte da Samuel Beckett tra il 1929 e il 1940.
Selezionate per l’importanza che ebbero sull’opera di Beckett le lettere pubblicate in questa edizione, in quattro volumi, coprono un periodo di sessant’anni (1929-1989) e includono lettere ad  amici, pittori, musicisti, studenti, editori, traduttori e colleghi.

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UK: top ten bestsellers (1-7 marzo 2009)

Top 10 paperbacks – fiction

1. “This Charming Man” by Marian Keyes (Penguin)

2.  “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga (Atlantic)

3. “When Will There be Good News?” by Kate Atkinson (Transworld Publishers)

4. “The Reader” by Bernhard Schlink (Orion)

5. “Confessions of a Shopaholic” by Sophie Kinsella (Dell)

6. “Honour Thyself” by Danielle Steel (Transworld Publishers)

7. “The Secret Scripture” by Sebastian Barry (Faber)

8. “Scream for Me” by Karen Rose (Headline Publishing)

9. “Careless in Red” by Elizabeth George (Hodder)

10. “Wedding Season” by Katie Fforde (Arrow)

Top 10 paperbacks – non fiction

1. “Dreams from My Father” by Barack Obama (Canongate)

2. “The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher” by Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury)

3. “The Bolter” by Frances Osborne (Little, Brown)

4. “Marley and Me” by John Grogan (Hodder)

5. “Jordan” by Katie Price (Arrow)

6. “Shadows of the Workhouse” by Jennifer Worth (Orion)

7. “Apache Dawn” by Damien Lewis (Little Brown)

8. “The Audacity of Hope” by Barack Obama (Canongate)

9. “I Just Wanted to be Loved” by Stuart Howarth (HarperCollins)

10. “Cut” by Cathy Glass (HarperCollins)

Fonte: The Sunday Times Bestseller List, March 15, 2009

La lista è pubblicata da “The Bookseller”, i dati sono forniti da Nielsen BookScan e si riferiscono alla settimana 1-7 marzo 2009.

Best-sellers Books (WSJ) 1-7 marzo 2009

La lista dei libri più venduti in U.S.A. Settimana dall’1 all’7 marzo 2009.

FICTION

1. “Handle with Care” M.J. Rose (Atria)

2. “Eclipse” Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown)

3. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid The Last Straw” Jeff Kinney (Amulet)

4. “Breaking Dawn” by Stephenie Meyer (Little Brown)

5. “The Sword Thief” Peter Lerangis ( Scholastic)

6. “The Associate”  John Grisham (Random House)

7. “Promises in Death” J.D. Robb (Piatkus Books)

8. “Diary of a Wimpy Rodrick Rules” Jeff Kinney (Penguin)

9. “Run for Your Life” James Patterson (Little Brown)

10. “The Host” Stephenie Meyer, (Little Brown)

NONFICTION

1. “ACT Like a Lady, Think Like a Man” Steve Harvey (Amistad)

2. “Outliers The Story of Success” Malcolm Gladwell (Little Brown)

3. “The Yankee Years” Joe Torre, Tom Verducci (Random House)

4. “The Power of Soul” Zhi Gang Sha (Simon & Schuster)

5. “The Sandler Rules” David Mattson (Pegasus)

6. “Strengthsfinder 2.0” Tom Rath (Gallup Press)

7. “Last Lecture” by Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (Hyperion)

8. “Out of Captivity” Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, Marc Gonsalves, Gary Brozek ( HarperCollins)

9.”The Secret” Rhonda Byrne (Atria)

10. “Miles to Go” Miley Cyrus (Hyperion)

Fonte: Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2009

La lista pubblicata dal Wall Street Journal rappresenta le vendite nazionali di libri durante la settimana dall’1 al 7 marzo 2009 nelle oltre 2.500 librerie Barnes & Noble, B. Dalton, Bookland, Books-a-Million, Books & Co, Bookstar, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano’s, Coles, Coopersmith, Doubleday, Scribners e Waldenbooks oltre alle vendite online di Amazon.com e barnesandnoble.com